whiz kid

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whiz kid

n. Informal

A young person who is exceptionally intelligent, innovatively clever, or precociously successful.

[Alteration of Quiz Kid, a panelist on an early game show.]

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whiz(z) kid

n (inf, in career) → Senkrechtstarter(in) m(f); financial/publishing whiz kid → Finanz-/Verlagsgenie nt → or -größe f; a whiz kid like him will soon find a solution → ein solcher Intelligenzbolzen wird bald auf eine Lösung kommen (inf)

whiz kid n (fam) → mago/a

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